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slug	title	tags	date
organizational-habits	Organizational Habits	zettel organizational-habits psychology habits psychology/habits institutional-habits the-power-of-habit book book/the-power-of-habit charles-duhigg	2021-08-04T07:47

Organizational habits are #[[b11c411a]] that are formed within a body of an organization or company by the independent decisions of each member which can either help keep the best interest of the company, or stir internecine war within.

Organizational habits or "routines", as Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter, authors of An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, describes it, "creates truces that allow work to get done."¹ Without routines, employees and executives of a company will compete against each other in pursuit of self-interest, putting the company's wellfare in jeopardy. Also, routines allow a company to streamline decision makings and create more predictable results, that even when the VP suddenly quit, the company will still be functional.

Footnotes

1. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - Chapter 6: The Power of a Crisis ↩